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Above and Beyond (2006)
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
True Story about the Atlantic Ferry Operation during World War II.
Style:
exciting, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
world war two, post war, captain, military, love and romance, love affair, danger, heroes, life is a bitch, wartime life, against the odds, relationship vs career, aviation, world war, war, pilot, battles, aerial combats, ferry, floods and fires, romance
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 30s, 40s
Place:
europe, canada, newfoundland, england, london
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Most similar movies to Above and Beyond
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, exciting and captivating films and TV series with plots about world war two, war, world war, wartime life, military, soldier and danger mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Above and Beyond: Piece of Cake (1988), Colditz (2005), Danger UXB (1979), X Company (2015), Fortunes of War (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives and loves of the men of RAF Hornet Squadron who are transferred to France at the outbreak of World Wat II in September 1939. For the most part the men are competent fliers but there is little action in the first several months. The men ...
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
aerial combats, world war two, battles, aviation, luftwaffe, royal air force, warplane, wartime, world war, partner, friends, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Three prisoners, Jack Rose, Tom Willis and Nick McGrade, embark on an heroic plan to escape from a World War Two POW camp. As Rose And Willis are recaptured by the Germans, McGrade manages to traverse their clutches and travels to London to inform ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
pow, world war two, military, soldier, love and romance, battles, love triangle, prison life, nazism, world war, danger, confined ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939
Place:
london, germany, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers.
The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, terrorism, military life, battles, danger, wartime life, soldier, anti hero, heroes, military, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
An emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits - Canadian, American and British - torn from their ordinary lives ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
world war two, secret agent, working undercover, heroic mission, undercover, danger, espionage, rivalry, friendship, nazi, world war, strength ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 407 min.
TV show
Story:
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, diplomacy, dysfunctional marriage, spy, resistance, activist, infidelity, lecturer, life is a bitch, war, opposites attract ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
greece, middle east, egypt, africa, romania ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
forbidden love, sexual content, world war two, soldier, couples, war, family relations, against humanity, age difference, wartime, rabbi, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, year 1939, year 1940
Place:
poland, europe, russia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Poland
TV show
Story:
At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys defy their parents to sign up.
Style:
historical drama, epic, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
world war one, military, wartime life, soldier, life is a bitch, hopes, battles, great war, friendship, danger, bittersweet, war ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, terrorism, rescue, evacuation, danger, life is a bitch, against humanity, heroes, against the rules, war, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, year 1991
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe, copenhagen
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, wartime, against the odds, life is a bitch, danger, daring rescue, german occupation, prospector, nazi occupation, resistance fighter, resistance ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 291 min.
TV show
Story:
Ike is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. ...
Style:
historical drama, realistic, serious, sincere, exciting ...
Plot:
world war two, president, u.s. president, usa history, world war, military, d day, historical figure, biopic, battles, head of state, against humanity ...
Place:
kansas, england, london, europe, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
soviet army, aviation, world war two, world war, allies, bomber, air force, navy, ocean, battles, danger, war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, danger, war, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
the philippines, japan, asia, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.
Style:
exciting, sincere
Plot:
aerial combat, air force, world war two, world war, aviation, soldier, courage, wartime life, danger, politics, rescue, battles ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, britain, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, f word
Plot:
bomber, world war two, aerial combats, soldier, airplane, battles, military life, heroic mission, leadership, flying, aviation, war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
sicily, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, vintage, period drama
Plot:
world war two, military, sacrifice, luftwaffe, air force, leadership, duty, camaraderie, aerial combat, heroism, responsibility, courage ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Style:
macaroni combat, exciting, bleak, rough, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, battles, nazi, combat, revolution, struggle, revolutionary, revolutionary war, soldier, computers and web, destiny ...
Time:
1940s, year 1978
Place:
africa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, female protagonist, village, friends, strong female presence, social relations, british, husband wife relationship, family relations, mother son relationship, father son relationship, woman ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
ZOS: Zone of Separation is a Canadian television drama mini-series, co-executive produced by Paul Gross. It is an eight-part Canadian original drama mini-series about the life and death struggle to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in the fictional, ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
peace, un, peaceful mission, military life, religions or cults, war, society, anti war, life is a bitch, rivalry, violence spree, muslim ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, sitcom ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, aviation, military, world war, mission, air force, american soldier, revolutionary war, aircraft, wartime, revolution, revolutionary ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 135 min.
TV show
Story:
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Style:
historical drama, saga, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war, nazi germany, military, world war, submarine, dictatorship, nazi, winston churchill, hitler, u.s. president ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
asia, pearl harbor, pacific ocean, japan, europe ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, semi autobiographical ...
Plot:
world war two, military, fighting the system, love triangle, life is a bitch, soldier, betrayal, love and romance, military life, haunted by the past, basic training, society ...
Time:
future, 1940s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Belarus
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
A Russian frontier guard Ivan Burov and a Polish girl Hanna love each other in spite of every prohibition and obstacle. But on the 22d of June 1941 the war begins.. After a series of clashes with the Germans Ivan Burov remains the only surviving ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing
Plot:
world war two, war, russian soldier, life & death, hopes, heroes, couples, love and romance, fall in love, wartime, murder, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
russia, ussr
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spy, covert operation, chases and races, espionage, undercover, criminal heroes, heroes, rebellion, against humanity, state affairs, war, escapades ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as ...
Style:
retro, realistic, serious, vintage
Plot:
world war two, military, world war, tank, mission, american soldier, soldier, anti war, infantrymen, military life, babies and infants, war ...
Time:
year 1944, 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, prague, france, czech republic
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, raf, aviation, world war, military, flying, warplane, fighter plane, french resistance, aerial combat, space, luftwaffe ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, france
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, heroism, war, battles, heroes, world war, life is a bitch, wartime life, danger, battle zone, military life, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
europe, soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
Style:
exciting, macaroni combat, grindhouse, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, world war, wartime, exploitation, holocaust, prisoner, battles, confined, soldier, rivalry, war, escapades ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam, netherlands
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style:
captivating, serious, emotional, tense, sexual ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, love triangle, sexual content, family in danger, couple relations, confined, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
eastern europe, middle east, poland, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
Story:
A series featuring actual color footage of World War II.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, military, journalism, against humanity, war, life is a bitch, battle zone, battles, world war, combat, soldier ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Similarity:
32%
4K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, wartime life, forbidden love, premarital sex, american abroad, prejudice, racism, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
Similarity:
32%
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